Director, Early Learning Center — Impactful Leader

Mystic Valley Young Mens Christian Assoc; Malden (MA); Vor Ort; USD 55.000 - 63.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mystic Valley YMCA is seeking an Early Learning Center Director in Malden, MA to lead daily operations, staff, and curriculum for a 70-child program. You will ensure safety, inclusivity, and developmentally appropriate practice while managing licensing, enrollment, and resources.

The role emphasizes recruiting and coaching teachers, meeting EEC requirements, and coordinating with licensing bodies to maintain high-quality care. A Director’s License is required.

Qualifikationen

• Meets educational and experience qualifications established by EEC.
• Director’s License required.
• CPR, First Aid, AED certifications and child abuse prevention training within 30 days of hire date.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and build a strong team.
• Ability to plan, organize and implement age-appropriate/developmentally appropriate program activities.
• Passes a CORI, SORI and DCF background record check.
• Meets all other requirements of Mystic Valley YMCA for employment.

Aufgaben

• Lead day-to-day operation of the Early Learning Center, ensuring a safe, nurturing, inclusive, engaging, and developmentally appropriate environment for every child.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and continuously improve an early childhood curriculum that supports children's social-emotional, cognitive, physical, language, and creative development.
• Ensure teachers conduct ongoing developmental observations and assessments and use the information to individualize learning experiences and support each child's development.
• Monitor classroom quality through regular observation, coaching, feedback, and direct involvement with children and staff.
• Maintain an environment that recognizes individual needs, abilities, cultures, family backgrounds, and diverse learning styles.
• Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, train, schedule, supervise, coach, recognize, and evaluate teachers and program staff.
• Ensure appropriate staffing patterns are maintained and that staff qualifications, assignments, ratios, and supervision practices comply with current EEC requirements.
• Conduct regular staff meetings and provide ongoing coaching and professional development.
• Maintain required EEC records, policies, plans, inspections, documentation, and program information and ensure readiness for licensing visits and renewals.
• Ensure required emergency, health, safety, medication, incident-reporting, child protection, and evacuation procedures are consistently followed.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Staff development

Recruiting

Ausbildung

Director’s License

Jobbeschreibung

Mystic Valley YMCA is seeking an Early Learning Center Director in Malden, MA to lead daily operations, staff, and curriculum for a 70-child program. You will ensure safety, inclusivity, and developmentally appropriate practice while managing licensing, enrollment, and resources.

The role emphasizes recruiting and coaching teachers, meeting EEC requirements, and coordinating with licensing bodies to maintain high-quality care. A Director’s License is required.